BLACKSVILLE, W.Va. — The students of Mason Dixon Elementary School assembled Thursday, April 16, to learn the final count for this year’s Links of Love fundraiser. First-grade teacher Linda Hennen said the fundraising began April 9 and, in one week’s time, students raised $3,485, which will be donated to the[Read More…]
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Heavy rains bring down big rocks in Kanawha
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Heavy rains and high water threatened roads and homes throughout the state on Tuesday, but emergency officials said the water had largely gone down by late afternoon. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings — meaning flooding was imminent or had already been reported — for[Read More…]
Here’s why you go to a chocolate festival
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Hindu prayers open Martinsburg council meeting
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism in Reno, Nevada, delivered the opening prayer Thursday at the Martinsburg City Council meeting. This was the first time in living memory that a non-Christian opening prayer was offered at a City Council meeting. Traditionally, the opening prayer[Read More…]
Bramwell marks Civil War’s end at 150-year mark
BRAMWELL, W.Va. — When Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Va., the state of Virginia was in ruins. The state’s cotton and tobacco agricultural-based economy fueled by slave labor was gone and after four years of fighting, most of the[Read More…]
Spring storm fells tree on Charleston thoroughfare
1950s car dealership sign uncovered in Charleston
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Workers renovating the facade of the Goodwill office building on Virginia Street West in Charleston found something they weren’t expecting recently. They discovered the building had once housed one of the city’s more well-known car dealerships. John Taylor, director of mission services for Goodwill Industries of Kanawha[Read More…]
Tall visitor scores smiles in Morgantown
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Harlem Globetrotter Shane “Scooter” Christensen towered over the children at WVU Children’s Hospital as he twirled a basketball on one finger, then handed it over to a patient to do the same. The look of joy on the child’s face was immediate. “Coming out here and putting[Read More…]
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New citizens are all smiles in Charleston ceremony
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Fifty-seven people became American citizens during a naturalization ceremony on Monday at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. District Courthouse in Charleston. The new citizens and their nations of origin are…